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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
Medical Writer
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
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Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
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The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
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Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
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What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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